History
Kappa Delta Rho was founded in room 14 of Old Painter Hall at Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT on May 17, 1905. It formed out of the Middlebury Commons Club, and had ten principal founders: George Edwin Kimball, Irving Thurston Coates, John Beecher, Thomas Howard Bartley, Pierce Wordsworth Darrow, Benjamin Edward Farr, Gideon Russell Norton, Gino Arturo Ratti, Chester Monroe Walch and Roy Dyer Wood.
Unusual among college fraternities, KDR's Alpha Chapter at Middlebury was forced to coeducate in the early 1990s, due to a policy at the school against single-sex organizations. The chapter is now the Alpha and only chapter of the Kappa Delta Rho Society, and maintains its own traditions and a unique badge, slightly modified from the standard fraternity badge. The Society was readmitted in 2012 to the National Fraternity as the 'Alpha Society'.
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